Serious question "Why are there so many proven criminals so close to Trump?"
The simple answer is because the government has spent 3 years and hundreds of millions of dollars investigating them.
If the Justice Department devoted 3 years and hundreds of millions of dollars to investigating Democratic members of Congress, how many people would end u getting charged with crimes out of that investigation?
This should scare the **** out of all of us. If rich, powerful people like Donald Trump and his friends can be treated this way by a bureaucracy that is out to punish them, what could it do to normal Americans who dare to speak out?
Let this sink in for a moment.
A man who forgot about an email he sent two years previous and amended his testimony to reflect that he simply forgot bout said email is being charged with a felony for that while a man who lied to Congress about using the NSA to spy on Americans was charged with NOTHING.
That's ******* scary.